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Omaha Steve

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Fri Jun 4, 2021, 02:23 PM Jun 2021

Tensions rise in Minneapolis after police fatally shoot suspect [View all]

Source: The Hill

BY JORDAN WILLIAMS

Tensions emerged in Minneapolis on Thursday evening after police fatally shot a suspect while attempting to serve an arrest warrant.

Members of a U.S. Marshals task force were attempting to apprehend an individual wanted on a state warrant for possession of a firearm by a felon at around 2:10 p.m., according to a statement from the U.S. Marshall Service shared with The Hill by the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office.

During the incident, the subject, who was in a parked car, “failed to comply and produced a handgun resulting in task force members firing upon the subject,” the statement said.

Task force members attempted to perform life-saving measures, but the suspect was pronounced dead that the scene.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/556850-tensions-emerge-in-minneapolis-after-police-fatally-shoot-suspect

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